The Opposition INDIA alliance has triumphed in the by-elections for 13 Assembly seats across seven states, securing 10 seats while the BJP, fresh off its third consecutive term after the Lok Sabha polls, won just two
The INDIA bloc, comprising parties like Congress, Trinamool Congress (TMC), AAP, and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), fielded candidates in the bypolls held on Wednesday in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and Tamil Nadu.
In Punjab, AAP’s Mohinder Bhagat secured the Jalandhar West seat with a lead of over 23,000 votes. In West Bengal, TMC candidates won all four contested seats. In Himachal Pradesh, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife, Kamlesh Thakur, won the Dehra seat in her electoral debut, while Congress also claimed the Nalagarh seat. BJP’s Ashish Sharma, however, emerged victorious in Hamirpur.
The TMC’s candidates in West Bengal defeated their BJP rivals by substantial margins to claim four seats. In Tamil Nadu, DMK’s Anniyur Siva won the Vikravandi seat with a near 60,000 vote lead. Congress candidates clinched both the Badrinath and Manglaur seats in Uttarakhand, while in Madhya Pradesh, BJP’s Kamslesh Pratap Shahi won the Amarwar seat.
Vote counting for the 13 legislative assembly seats began on Saturday morning following Wednesday’s voting. These bypolls were the first since the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, where the BJP won 240 seats—32 short of the majority—but the NDA managed to surpass the halfway mark with a total of 293 seats. The Congress-led INDIA bloc secured 232 seats.
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